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With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.
Gladiators fought in rounds, and there were referees to enforce rules. Only rarely were gladiators killed.
Your brain is not an obsolete piece of technology. Once properly trained for learning, it’s your ticket to navigating the AI landscape.
Bang bang all over the Universe.
In our competitive world, fortune does not appear to favor the humble — but a strong counter-narrative is emerging.
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
There are many things in life that cannot be improved with greater effort. Sometimes, life requires that you step back.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
In 1667, a core-collapse supernova happened right here in the Milky Way, invisible to all humans. ~350 years later, here's what JWST sees.
It could prevent sun damage and help chemical burns heal faster.
While executive function matures between 18 and 20 years of age, the brain keeps changing long afterward.
A massive nuclear fusion experiment just hit a major milestone, potentially putting us a little closer to a future of limitless clean energy.
Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.
When we look at our Sun, its properties are incredibly constant, varying by merely ~0.1% over time. But all stars don't play by those rules.
In hospice care and hospitals, we prioritize those with more life to live over those who are terminally ill. What is that, if not prejudice?
We often assume that movement means progress and that doing something is better than doing nothing. That is often not true.
Light can be turned into heat, which can then be turned into motion, and the effect of that motion can be turned into a big squeeze.
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.
In our Universe, all stable atomic nuclei have protons in them; there's no stable "neutronium" at all. But what's the reason why?